Dem lashes out at lawmakers over Orlando: ‘Our silence does not honor the victims, it mocks them’

A Connecticut Democrat responded with righteous indignation to the mass shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub.

Rep. Jim Hines (D-CT) watched a new documentary about the Newtown school shooting that left 20 children and six adults dead near his home district, and he vented his frustration and fury Sunday evening after a gunman fatally shot 49 people at Pulse nightclub, reported Slate.

I will not attend one more"Moment of Silence" on the Floor. Our silence does not honor the victims, it mocks them. pic.twitter.com/VWWdOkliWN